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Dream and reality
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Nereálný socialismus
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Races to Modernity
The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Belgrade, or Athens confirms the importance of the Western model as well as the influence of international experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe. In addition, this volume presents an alternative perspective that aims to understand the genesis of Eastern European cities with a metropolitan character or metropolitan aspirations as a process sui generis. The rapid expansion of metropolitan cities such as London and Paris began in the 17th and 18th centuries. Large parts of Central and Eastern Europe underwent urbanization and industrialization with considerable delay. Nevertheless beginning in the second half of the 19th century, the towns in the Romanov and Habsburg empires, as well as in the Balkans grew into cities and metropolitan areas. They changed at an astonishing pace. This transformation has long been interpreted as an attempt to overcome the economic and cultural backwardness of the region and to catch up to Western Europe.
Prague Interiors
Delving into Prague's architectural history, this study demonstrates how it covers twelve centuries of the art of building. Within this volume, many houses are detailed inside as well as out, revealing Romanesque spaces that survive below ground in many Old Town structures while most of the ground floors still follow the Gothic layouts. Renaissance masonry is illustrated, supporting walls and facades that are often in Baroque style, and modern times are captured in the new styles of Art Nouveau, Cubism, and Functionalism.
Antonín Heythum
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Prague
The complete pocket guide to the most relevant 205 buildings of Praha from Romantic to contemporary
Landscapes of Communism
'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies' Will Self During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban planning of the grand imperial past, it set out to transform everyday life, its sweeping boulevards, epic high-rise and vast housing estates an emphatic declaration of a non-capitalist idea. Now, the regimes that built them are dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to post-Revo...
